Exploring the inner motivations of one of Americaa€?s greatest religious thinkers, this book analyses the ways in which Jonathan Edwards' intense personal piety and deep experience of divine sovereign
Statues of Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone grace downtown Hartford, Connecticut, but few residents are aware of the distinctive version of Puritanism that these founding ministers of Harford's First Ch
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetor
Whitney identifies the private devotional practices of colonial American religious figure Edwards and the degree to which they impacted the public aspects of is pastoral ministry. His topics include b
In Unity in Diversity, Randall J. Pederson critiques current trends in the study of Puritanism, and proposes a different path for defining Puritanism, centered on unitas and diversitas, by looking at
Storm of Words is a study of the ways that southern Presbyterians in the wake of the Civil War contended with a host of cultural and theological questions, chief among them developments in natural his
Sheeres has annotated the minutes from the three early assemblies of the Christian Reformed Church in American, which was founded in 1857 by Dutch immigrants who had been members of the Christian Sece
Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knoxa€?s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a
Religious and cultural leader Albertus C. Van Raalte, a Dutch immigrant, came to the US in 1846 and founded the Holland kolonie. This collection of 15 bibliographic and thematic essays and reception s
